Danville Airport

Danville Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Montour & Northumberland Cmsn.
Serves Danville, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL 559 ft / 170 m
Coordinates 40°57′05″N 076°38′34″W / 40.95139°N 76.64278°W / 40.95139; -76.64278
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
9/27 3,000 914 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 30,000
Based aircraft 38

Danville Airport (FAA LID: 8N8) is a public use airport in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Danville, a borough in Montour County.[1] The airport is owned by the Montour & Northumberland County Commissioners.

Facilities and aircraft

Hangar at Danville Airport

Danville Airport covers an area of 114 acres (46 ha) at an elevation of 559 feet (170 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 9/27 which measures 3,000 by 60 feet (914 x 18 m).[1]

The airport previously had two turf runways: 9/27 which measured 2,140 by 350 feet (652 m × 107 m) (located north of the new 9/27 asphalt runway[2]) and 15/33 measuring 2,170 by 198 feet (661 m × 60 m).[3][4]

For the 12-month period ending August 6, 2008, the airport had 30,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 82 per day. At that time there were 38 aircraft based at this airport, all single-engine.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for 8N8 (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-07-02.
  2. ↑ Danville Airport
  3. ↑ Danville Airport (8N8) Archived 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine. at PennDOT Bureau of Aviation
  4. ↑ Economic Impacts of Aviation: Danville Archived 2011-02-17 at Wikiwix
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